The essays in the book remind the reader that castelessness myths represent particularly insidious caste politics by ...

Anthropologist Carola E. Lorea traces Matua struggles over displacement, citizenship and caste as electoral politics reshapes ...

"The problem is with Mr Rahul Gandhi. Even if you have to be a doctor, this kind of argument comes into it without knowing ...

A viral debate on social media has reignited questions about whether China's Hukou household registration system functions ...

RSS publicity chief Sunil Ambekar says communal tensions predate the Sangh and call for collective Hindu-Muslim solutions, questions caste-based politics, and warns that AI will transform but not ...

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NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous country. Information ...

JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, chief editor of LeftWord Books, and ...

More often, Islam’s egalitarian principles are invoked by Muslims to avoid deeper engagement with the question of caste ...

The Indian government will collect caste details in its next population census in a policy U-turn that could have sweeping socioeconomic and political ramifications. Information minister Ashwini ...

On October 2, the government of the eastern Indian state of Bihar released the report of a survey on the state’s population by caste – a traditional hierarchical division in Hindu society. The state ...

"Votebank" politics Figuring out which party can win in Uttar Pradesh depends on complex caste equations and what political strategists call “votebank” politics. Or, as the saying goes: It’s not how ...